{"id":1099,"date":"2010-11-29T05:39:53","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T12:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2010-11-29T05:39:53","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T12:39:53","slug":"miraculous-magnetic-clowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2010\/11\/29\/miraculous-magnetic-clowns\/","title":{"rendered":"Miraculous Magnetic Clowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James McGirk, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3quarksdaily.com\/3quarksdaily\/2010\/11\/baptism-by-soda-a-look-at-the-juggalo-phenomenon-.html\">writing in 3quarksdaily<\/a>, repeats the widely stated claim that the Insane Clown Posse display inexcusable ignorance when they claim, in their song &#8216;Miracles&#8217;, to be mystified by magnets.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One line in particular snagged the world\u2019s attention: \u201cWater, fire, air  and dirt, Fucking magnets, how do they work?\u201d Magnetism being a staple  of primary school science education, the line struck many casual  listeners as spectacularly ignorant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The explanation of magnetism is definitely NOT a &#8220;staple of primary school science education&#8221; and the widespread disdain for that line in the song shows greater ignorance than the line itself.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, when one commenter on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_-agl0pOQfs\">youTube site<\/a> asserts that\u00a0 &#8220;33,316 people know\ufeff how magnets work scientifically&#8221; (which would be about five people in a million worldwide), that actually sounds about right.<\/p>\n<p>I would venture to suggest also that, of those of us that do understand how magnets work, most consider it a miracle only slightly less astounding than the fact that we can actually understand it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James McGirk, writing in 3quarksdaily, repeats the widely stated claim that the Insane Clown Posse display inexcusable ignorance when they claim, in their song &#8216;Miracles&#8217;, to be mystified by magnets. One line in particular snagged the world\u2019s attention: \u201cWater, fire, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2010\/11\/29\/miraculous-magnetic-clowns\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-culture","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1100,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions\/1100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}